always accord them full respect in classroom activity.297 Textbooks and school programmes should be revised and teaching methods adapted to achieve these aims.298 Teacher training States must ensure that teacher-training institutions improve gender parity in teacher recruitment and graduation.299 They should incorporate a gender perspective in courses for trainee teachers of both sexes and develop gender training programmes for both female and male serving teachers. Barriers States must identify the extent to which aspects of customs, traditions and any other sociocultural factors impede egalitarian treatment of girls and women in educational institutions and take steps to eradicate those impediments.300 States must develop and apply qualitative and quantitative indicators to identify and address the barriers to girls’ and women’s full enjoyment of their right to education, including discrimination and financial disadvantage. States must ensure that families desist from giving preferential treatment to boys in education.301 Measures should include information and awareness raising campaigns, as well as other actions necessary to remove the barriers to female education. Such measures may include financial support to families in need. States should be aware of and take measures to prevent both males and females from dropping out of educational institutions, in particular secondary and higher institutions, by reason of financial and other constraints. Programmes should be organised for those who have left school prematurely.302 297 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education Girls’ right to education E/CN.4/2006/45 8 February 2006 at para 102. 298 CEDAW article 10(c). 299 The Special Rapporteur has noted the absence of female teachers in some countries and their prevalence in others: see Preliminary Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education E/CN.4/1999/49 13 January 1999. 300 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education Girls’ right to education E/CN.4/2006/45 8 February 2006 at paras 21 – 25. 301 CESCR General Comment No. 16: The equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights E/C.12/2005/4 11 August 2005 at para 30. 302 See CEDAW article 10(f), although this applies exclusively to girls and women. 109